Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 10:05:25 +0800
From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Phantom disks??

At 08:17 PM 25/04/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 03:12:58 +0000
>From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [LIB] Phantom disks??
>
>
>>>I wonder if there's any relevance in the fact that you have the extended 
>>>partition set as bootable/active? Windows is unhappy about anything 
>>>other than the first partition set as bootable, maybe changing that will 
>>>alter things?
>
>>Ooh Ooh Ooh this has caused me problems in the past ... maybe thats it?
>
>Yeah... At one time I was told to put Windows on first primary partition, 
>definately not on an extended one.  You guys have said you, or others have 
>put Windows on primary partitions further along without problems though, yes?

Without weirdo software (which often does strange things anyway) you can't 
have Win9x/ME running on anything other than the first partition of the 
boot drive. Linux, NT, 2k, XP, they're all fine wherever you put them (as 
long as they're configured right).


- Raymond



P.S. I'm running a bit behind on the list, apologies if I'm answering 
questions that have already been answered!

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